Need some Backup program advice.

penciltester · 04-06-2019, 03:15 PM

Hi everyone. I would like to have my system perform a backup on each shutdown. Is there a program that can be set up to do this? I'm very new to linux, any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

greencedar · 04-06-2019, 05:42 PM

I noticed your "Ubuntu" avatar.

So, have you tried: Applications/Backups/Scheduling/Every day ?

frankbell · 04-06-2019, 07:14 PM

You might want to take a look at Back in Time.

You could also write an rsync script (Back in Time is a GUI frontend for rsync), then have cron call the script, but Back in Time is likely easier.

jefro · 04-08-2019, 03:14 PM

I think you'd have to be selective on how you shutdown. What you are saying is I think you want some script to run at shutdown to do some task then shutdown. In some distro's it isn't easy to capture all the ways one may be able to shutdown and change them.

Backup on every shutdown isn't a normal way to backup I'd think.

Live backups by some advanced filesystem may work. Some sort of raid may help.

Backup of some directory every so many minutes may help.

From question it almost seems you want entire system backed up.

ChuangTzu · 04-08-2019, 03:19 PM

In addition to frank and jefro, you may want to consider luckybackup, it's very simple and does not obfuscate the process. Back in Time does some things unique to it. grsync is another option. Personally, I would rather schedule a backup for a specific time each day rather then at shutdown, this would avoid any gotchas if shutdown gets screwy. With that said a daily backup is a bit much no? Make sure to setup an auto-delete for no more then 5 or 10 backups etc...

pan64 · 04-08-2019, 03:24 PM

Probably it depends on your setup. How much data do you want to save? Where is that backup device located (local/remote ???)
Using rsync you may have fast incremental backups, but you need to learn/understand how does it work. https://www.marksanborn.net/howto/us...nthly-backups/